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Monthly Archives: March 2009

10 Tools to Help you Make More Money

March 20, 2009
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10 Tools to Help you Make More Money

In preparation for today’s Cabot Wealth Advisory, I went back and read our in-house recap of a recent survey we sent you.  While it was expressed a few different ways, the most common response was some form of “Help me make money by helping me know when to buy, sell, be in and out of the market …” and so on. Part of that, of course, involves what stocks to buy–and I’ll get to that later in this Advisory. But most of it (far more than most investors understand) comes from having a solid foundation of what works, and...

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My Pick for the Best Stimulus Stock

March 19, 2009
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My Pick for the Best Stimulus Stock

If you follow the market, you know we’re still going through the pains of a shakeout from last year’s crash. I see it too; that’s why Cabot readers have been largely on the sidelines holding cash since we first saw the technical signs of a severe market slump in early September. It’s also why the Cabot Green Investor model portfolio lost only 15% in 2008 compared to the 40% that the S&P and Nasdaq lost, the 60% alternative energy mutual funds lost and the 70% Green ETFs lost last year. Now we are seeing early signs the market is...

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Why Gun Stocks Are Strong

March 18, 2009
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Why Gun Stocks Are Strong

Switching gears, we turn to the world of guns.  Why?  Because gun stocks are strong.  You probably haven’t read about it in the news, and Lord knows it’s not a topic that gets much ink or airtime in our urban East Coast media.  But I was looking at the list of stocks hitting new highs one day and there they were, like a shotgun blazing away with both barrels. So why are gun stocks strong?  The first reason, apparently, is that many Americans fear President Barack Obama and his associates will soon make guns more difficult to buy …...

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What the Great Famine Tells us About our Economy

March 17, 2009
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Odds are you know at least something of the Great Famine of 1845-1850 that led to the long surge of Irish immigrants to American shores, many of whose descendants will be marching today to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day (including my mom, a proud immigrant from County Cork). To us today, the Great Famine is an awful but distant thing. After all, it was poor people in an unenlightened corner of the world who suffered because they relied too much on the potato. A tragedy for sure, but hardly a mirror on us today. Right? The reality is far more...

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Fertile Territory: 3 Well-Run Operations

March 16, 2009
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Fertile Territory: 3 Well-Run Operations

The stock market occasionally takes on a kind of soap opera tone, with emotions running high and complicated romantic tangles proliferating. There’s a kind of acquisition competition affecting three fertilizer companies, right now that has a little of the “He loves her, but she loves someone else” flavor. Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full AGU chart at Wikinvest Agrium (AGU), a Canadian fertilizer company with a market cap of $5.8 billion is trying to buy CF Industries (CF), an Illinois company with a market...

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